Tony Hoare invented the null reference in 1965 and he considers it a ‘billion-dollar mistake’ for the amount of trouble it has caused. Even today, SQL’s null value is the cause of several common mistakes.

Normally, point releases in technology are not always newsworthy. For many legacy applications, the only glaring differences are subversive bug fixes and enhancements to keep up with competitive pressures. The Apache HadoopTM application is an exception because the technology is evolving so fast and in such high demand that each point release comes with notable improvements and several new tools that are actively changing the way users are running their queries, architecting their environments and developing their use cases. Learn More.